Sister Rose’s course was outstanding. All through the class my mind exploded with creativie ideas. I envisioned teaching students with the aid of film and music clips, as well as getting a blog site up and running. What a refreshing alterative to LECTURING!!

After the class I came home and started building a PowerPoint presentation directed to teachers. The presentation contains examples of how to get students actively engaged in learning and living their Christian faith in a way that is interesting to them. I plan to change my classroom role to more of a participant in the group, as opposed to being “the teacher,” (less one-way communication and more group discovery and interaction).

I believe the fall semester will be a much more enriching one for our Confirmation students. Sister Rose’s course has answered a question that has been gnawing at me for some time now, and that is: How do you teach religion and make it interesting? I guess the answer is: